Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Nope, Not Harvard's Champlain Map

By way of update to yesterday's story, Harvard officials have determined that the 1612 Champlain map scheduled for sale at Sotheby's is not the one missing from their collections. Canwest News Service reports a statement from Harvard spokesperson Beth Brainard saying that curators "have found enough discrepancies to believe that the one for sale is not the one missing from Harvard."

No comments:

About Me

News and commentary on book history, library culture, digital humanities, archives and related subjects. Written by Jeremy Dibbell, a bibliophile, haunter of used bookstores, and special collections librarian. Email: philobiblos@gmail.com.